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Off-market sales & acquisitions

Prime and super-prime London property bought and sold privately.

Route
Private
Introduced, never advertised
Focus
Prime London
Mayfair, Marylebone, Fitzrovia, Belgravia, Chelsea, South Kensington, Kensington
Buyers
Qualified only
Funding established before a viewing
Listings
Off-market
Nothing advertised, by design
Positioning

Why nothing is listed here

Most property we are instructed on is sold off-market. Sometimes that is the seller's decision, from an owner who would rather not have a board outside the house or a public record of what they asked and what they took. Just as often it begins in reverse, with an owner we approach through our GPO London network because a buyer is already looking for what they have.

So the work happens on two private lists. On one side, sellers who want a controlled process and a small number of qualified buyers. On the other, buyers whose requirement we hold and who hear about a property because it actually matches it. The introduction happens between the two, and nothing is published at any point.

For buyers

Search & acquisition

A brief, properly taken

What you want, what you will compromise on, and what you will not. Most searches fail because the brief was never honest about the third of those.

Access to what is not advertised

Stock that reaches us through owners, developers and other advisers, including properties whose owners have not yet decided to sell, but would for the right buyer.

Negotiation

What the property is worth to you, what it is worth to the market, and where the seller's flexibility actually is. Price is one term among several, and the others are often where the deal is won.

Through to completion

Coordinating surveys, solicitors and, where it helps, finance through our capital advisory practice, and keeping the timetable honest.

For sellers

A discreet disposal

A controlled list

Your property is shown to a defined set of buyers, agreed with you, and to nobody else. You know who has seen it.

No public record

No portal listing, no price reductions, no history for a future buyer or a neighbour to read back through.

Qualified buyers only

Funding position established before a viewing, not after an offer. Fewer viewings, and the ones that happen mean something.

Timing on your terms

A private process can move quickly or sit quietly for months. Neither costs you the credibility that a stale listing does.

Every week on the market is a week of evidence against the price.

How it works

Brief to completion

01

Brief

A conversation first. What you are buying or selling, why, and by when. We will tell you at this stage if we are not the right people.

02

Shortlist

For buyers, a small number of genuine candidates with the reasoning attached. For sellers, the buyer list we propose to approach, agreed with you before anyone is contacted.

03

Introduction

Viewings arranged privately and personally. Offers put and negotiated on what actually moves a price: certainty of funding, timing, and what matters to the other party beyond the number.

04

Exchange & completion

Solicitors, surveys, funding and timetable held together through to completion. We stay involved until it is done.

Questions

FAQs

Why are there no properties listed on this page?

Because the properties we sell are not advertised. An off-market instruction exists precisely so that it does not appear on a portal, in a window, or in a price history that anyone can look up in three years' time. Listing them here would defeat the point of instructing us.

What we do instead is match a private list of buyers against a private list of sellers. If you are on one of those lists, you see what is relevant to you.

What does off-market really mean?

That the property is available but not on the market. No portal listing, no board, no open viewings. Sometimes that is the owner's choice, because discretion, timing or control matters more to them than maximum exposure. Sometimes it is because a buyer is already looking for what they have, and the property only exists as an opportunity for as long as nobody else knows about it.

Do off-market properties sell for less?

Not as a rule. Fewer bidders can mean less competitive tension, but a private sale also avoids a public price history, a stale listing and a chain of reductions, all of which cost sellers real money. The honest answer is that it depends on the property and on the alternative, and we will give you a view on which route serves you better rather than assuming it is ours.

How quickly can you find something?

A well-defined brief in a market we know can produce introductions within days. A vaguer one takes longer, and a very specific requirement, for a particular building, a lateral floor or a specific outlook, may take a year or more of waiting for the right moment. We would rather tell you that than fill your inbox.

Where do you cover?

Prime and super-prime central London: Mayfair, Marylebone, Fitzrovia, Belgravia, Chelsea, South Kensington and Kensington. Beyond that we will say so and, where it helps, introduce you to someone who genuinely knows the area.

Is my enquiry confidential?

Yes. Nothing about a property or a requirement is shared without the client's agreement, and we do not circulate details to build a mailing list.

I am not sure I want to sell yet. Is it worth talking?

Yes, and it is the conversation we have most often. An owner who wants to know what their house would actually achieve, and to whom, does not have to instruct anyone to find out. If the answer is that now is the wrong moment, we will say so, and nothing goes any further.

Enquire

Buying, or selling quietly?

Register a requirement and we will come back to you when something fits. Or tell us about a property and we will give you a private view on it.